
Telephone Triage Nurse, Elizabeth Hudson, outlines her experience in the relatively young nursing role, and highlights some of the challenges faced day to day.
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Introduction
Having worked and thoroughly enjoyed my many years as an adult registered nurse in a busy hospital department, for reasons out of my control, the time came for a change and I made the transition to primary care.
Like many of us we almost become blinkered to anything outside our immediate work area and generally focus on our specific role in an attempt to be and do the very best we can.
A relatively new role in nursing (Telephone Triage Nurse) caught my attention.
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Telephone Triage Nurse
My choice of nursing as a career has been one I have rarely regretted. Although, like most of us, I have sometimes wondered "what if I had chosen a different path"? I have a passion for people, and the vulnerable and those in need are high on my list of priorities, so my work in cancer care was an obvious choice for many years. Now it's at a different point on the spectrum. Different but, hopefully, seen as worthwhile.
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